This is a fabulous idea, though a quick look the map of the entrepreneurial ecosystem shows that it covers only investors – venture, angels, corporate investors, and accelerators. That is only one part of the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem. To us, the entrepreneurial ecosystem includes:

Investors, angels, and VCs

Entrepreneurs and their management teams

State and local EDAs

Financial institutions

Media and publishing

Landlords and real estate

Vendors

Accountants

Attorneys

Mentors and advisors

Business associations

Foundations

Educators

University technology transfer offices

Lerner himself writes:

Future releases [of the map] will go beyond venture, angel, corporate investors and accelerators. We will be trying to comprehensively cover as many facets of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as possible in an easy to use manner - all in one place.

As a crowdsourced resource, anyone can add an investor to the map. What other facets of the entrepreneurial ecosystem should be added to the map, or to what I’ve listed above? After investors, investors, and VCs are listed, what would be the next most important part of the ecosystem to map out?